A physical drum machine is essentially a box that plays drum sounds. They can either use synthesized sounds or audio samples.

By 1984, Chicago DJs Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy were repurposing disco tracks with drum machines like the Roland TR-808 and 909 to create hypnotic beats. Knuckles, known as the “Godfather of House ...

The King family expressed the desire to review the files before release. Roland Martin provided an interesting take on President Donald Trump’s bold move to declassify documents on Rev. Dr ...

Music production manufacturer Roland has launched two new specialist performance keyboards. Created with professional stage musicians in mind, the V-STAGE range aims to turn all-in-one show keyboards ...

NAMM 2025: Roland has released plenty of stage pianos in the past, but the new V-Stage looks like something a little different. Indeed, it feels like Roland is parking its considerable tanks directly ...

NAMM 2025: Coming in at the top of Roland’s headphone line-up and aiming to be the ultimate all-in-one, the company has announced its latest Roland-branded collab from its V-Moda side-brand. Pitched ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Flickr member and owner of awesome stuff [Firegroove] brought us a teardown of a Roland TR-909 drum machine before, and now he brings us a new photoset of a TB-303 synth teardown. The machines ...

Hack-A-Day friend [Nathan] showed us some of his results creating his own High Dynamic Range images. Three normal Low Dynamic Range photos. One is under exposed, one is normal and the third is ...